Thomas Sowell: It’s hard to see how the country benefits from Senate Democrats’ report on CIA interrogations.

The Taliban appreciated the Democrat CIA report

The True Victims of Torture; The Democrats, suddenly shocked by the CIA’s tactics, dishonor the people who died on 9/11.    "Democrats’ highly convenient collective amnesia has erased their memories of being briefed on these probes.

 

"As a giant hole replaced the World Trade Center and Americans feared follow-on attacks, top congressional Democrats did not wail that interrogations of al-Qaeda suspects “are a stain on our values and our history,” as Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) now moans. Instead, top Democrats told the CIA to squeeze these scum even harder.

 

"As the December 9, 2007, Washington Post explained, congressional leaders from both chambers and parties — including then-House Democratic boss Nancy Pelosi of California — received “graphic and detailed” updates on the CIA’s questioning efforts, including waterboarding, as early as September 2002. While then-representative Jane Harman (D., Calif.) counseled caution, the overwhelming response was applause.

 

“ 'Among those being briefed, there was a pretty full understanding of what the CIA was doing,” Porter Goss, former House intelligence chairman and then director of Central Intelligence from 2004 to 2006, told the Post. “And the reaction in the room was not just approval, but encouragement.”...

Deroy Murdock

 

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 Thomas Sowell: Tortured Reasoning    "Critics and defenders of the harsh interrogation methods applied to captured terrorists can argue forever over whether those methods were “torture.” But any serious discussion of a serious issue — and surely terrorism qualifies as serious — has to move beyond semantics and confront the ultimate question: “Compared with what alternative?' ”...